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Girl A
Abigail Dean
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can endure an awful lot when you know that you'll be fed at the end of it.”
“That was the problem with coming home: you also had to come to the self which resided there.”
“and - though books cannot save you from everything - I hope that you are still reading.”
“I had loved JP in all of the ways that it’s unwise to love another person. Dido on the pyre. Antony in Alexandria. Bitch in heat.”
“Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anybody was going to make it, it was going to be you.”
“Young, and nervous. I worried about every single thing that I said. You'll know what I mean, once you start work. Early on, one worries about every damn thing.”
“To them, the past was a sickness which my siblings still carried; you could catch it from a conversation.”
“Oliver, it transpired, was addicted to alcohol and cocaine, and Gabriel was addicted primarily to Oliver; then, as an inevitable accompaniment, to Oliver’s own addictions, at first for Oliver’s approval, and later – as tended to be the case – because he couldn’t stop doing them.”
“I wore tight, dark clothes, and a smile that I’d practised. Despite the showers and the CK One, I stank of somebody who might need saving, and men liked that best of all.”
“When I looked at my siblings, frailer around the table, it seemed as though they’d taken a little flesh from each of us and made something new.”
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men, love, abuse-survivors, addiction, relationships, attraction, resi, attractiveness, unhealthy-relationships, saving